Vision NZ is a nationalist political party in New Zealand led by Hannah Tamaki, the co-leader of the fundamentalist Christian movement Destiny Church.
It has supported creating a Māori-owned bank and Tūhoe ownership of Te Urewera, and has called for government funding for Destiny Church programmes.
[15] On 16 August the Electoral Commission refused registration on the grounds that the party's name and logo was likely to mislead voters.
[16][17] In October 2019, the party announced a new name, Vision NZ, and a new logo, and applied to the Electoral Commission for registration again.
[20] In February 2020, Hannah Tamaki was understood to be a contestant on the upcoming Dancing with the Stars television show.
[23][24] Tamaki was asked by a journalist about similar comments by her husband Brian, who referred to "venomous, dirty liberal left, sexually confused antichrists", but Mrs Tamaki said she was not responsible for her husband's comments as they are not related to Vision NZ.
[25] By December 2019, the leaders of both major parties, Labour and National, had ruled out working with Vision NZ.
[31][32] An electorate poll for the Waiariki seat conducted in September 2020 showed that Vision NZ's leader, Hannah Tamaki, was only polling at 2%, compared to Labour's Tāmati Coffey at 38% and the Māori Party's Rawiri Waititi at 26%.
[35] Vision NZ won no seats, but Hannah Tamaki claimed after the election that her goal had always been to unseat Labour's candidate Coffey from the Waiariki electorate, and since that seat was won by Waititi, the party had achieved that goal.
[36] During the occupation of Parliament in August 2022, Brian Tamaki announced the creation of a new political party, Freedoms New Zealand.
The commission had allocated broadcasting funds to Freedoms NZ collectively rather than as individual political parties.
[48] Vision has supported greater financial autonomy for Māori people, including a Māori-owned bank and Tūhoe ownership of Te Urewera.